Quoting Bob W-PDML <[email protected]>:
On 10 Feb 2014, at 21:13, "John" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/10/2014 3:49 PM, Brian Walters wrote:
Quoting "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]>:
By the time it was in any way viable as a technology, DSLRs had
already taken over the market. The original IIRC called Silicon Film
had a 2.8x crop factor, 1.3mp images were to be produced with the
"cartridge" having only enough memory to store ~64 images, and
supported only certain models of Canon and Nikon film cameras. Those
limitations were probably necessary to keep R&D and production costs
down, but it always seemed to me that the real market would have been
in a device that would work in more obscure cameras, the real fun here
would be using it in a Kodak Retina folding rangefinder, or a
Voightlander Vito, or one of the systems that had orphaned lenses from
before the auto focus age. I'd have loved to have a digital LX but
when it was finally announced that it would only support Canon and
Nikon, I know I certainly lost interest.
There was a recent attempt to resurrect the digital film cartridge. The
'Digipod' was to be developed via Crowd Funding but it only managed to
reach 15,000GBP of its 199,000GBP target.
So it's probably dead in the water too. Pity. It could have been fun.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/digipodCheers
"The page you are looking for is no longer available or has been moved."
No cheers...
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/digipod
Yep. Sorry about that. I omitted to press the Return key before
pasting my sig.
Bob's link is the correct one.
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Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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